مصوری
بحر و موج خویش را بر خود زندپیش ما موجش گہر می افکند
English translation
He is (like) an ocean that is in encounter with his own waves; then waves throw pearls (on shores) in front of us.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
وہ ایسا سمندر ہے جو اپنی موج سے نبرد آزما ہے، تب اس کی موج ہمارے سامنے موتی لا ڈالتی ہے ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 of 42 in “مصوری” (Painting) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
Read it in the poem۳۰ / ۴۲